This paper explores the potential of a novel approach to energy efficient medium access
control for wireless sensor networks, whereby an aerial platform is employed to remove the …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have appealed to researchers due to their wide range of
application areas such as target detection and tracking, environment monitoring, and tactical …

TDMA-based MAC protocols are considered an energy effcient solution to prolong wireless
sensor network lifetime. However, their drawbacks such as complexity of slot assignment …

In delay-tolerant sensor networks where connectivity is not guaranteed, sensors are seeking
efficient ways to send the collected data during relatively rare transmission opportunities …

A wide range of applications such as disaster management, military, and security have
fueled interest in sensor networks in recent years. Since the employed sensor nodes often …

Although mobile applications are an essential characteristic of wireless sensor networks,
most existing media access control (MAC) protocols focus primarily on static networks. In …

In-network data aggregation is a cross-layer routing technique which is essential for wireless
sensor networks with a large number of nodes. Although the technique enhances energy …

Many studies on distributed resource-allocation algorithms have been conducted recently
because of the increasing number of network nodes and the rapidly changing network …

The energy hole problem is caused by earlier turning off of sensor nodes nearer the sink
due to more frequent data transmission, particularly in asynchronous MAC-based Wireless …

Receiver-initiated medium access control protocols for wireless sensor networks are
theoretically able to adapt to changing network conditions in a distributed manner. However …